Improvement in the construction of metal salvers



UNITED STATES PATENT Ormeac GEORGE BRABROOK, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, `ASSIGNOR TO REED AND BARTON, OE SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE 'CONSTRUCTION OF METAL SALVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,845, dated December 10, 1867.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, GEORGE BRABRooK, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Salvers or Wait-ers made of Britannia or other like metal or composi tion of metals 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- AFigure l denotes a top View, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of a salver made in accord alice with my invention.

It is Well known that, owing to the softness and flexibility of Britannia metal, it is ill tted. for the manufacture of waiters and salvers, which, when made of it, are liable to become bent under the Weight of a heavy article or articles when placed thereon. The main pur pose of my invention or improvement is to strengthen a salver or Waiter when composed of such metal, or a like soft or yielding material or composition 5 and this I accomplish hy means of an annulus of Wire or harder and less llexile metal, and a cap molding or cover,v formed with a groove to receive the strengthening-ring,and fastened down or soldered upon the upper surface of, and at the edge of,

the salver or Waiter.

In the drawings, A denotes the salver or Waiter; B, the supporting-ring of wire, and G the cap-molding arranged over such ring, and soldered to the upper surface of the rim of the bodyof the said waiter or salver, the wire ring andthe cap-moldin g being extended around the l.

facture, a waiter or salver of Britannia metal, i

haring a metallic strengthening-ring and capmolding combined and arranged With its body, in manner as specified.

GEORGE BRABROOK.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL N. Primm. J. R. SNOW. 

